W dbtainetl from it for more thart half the yfeaf. By fimpT* 

 evaporation this liquor produces a kitld of fugar^ which ha^ 

 the colour and cdnftf^eiicb of chon^lifte newly made; bui 

 which, in Jill probability, might bcfui'ceptibleof pttrificatibtl. 

 Excellent prefervd^ ^tt nfiade of the kernels atitd young fruit 

 of the arcn^^ and V^ry gc)od fago is e:^tra6l:ed from the trimk. 

 i Decanddlle read a memoir on the vegetation of the mifleU 

 to^, whitrh, as is \<^ell ktio^in, is a patafitic plant, that grow^ 

 oh fcveral trees and in all diretSbions. Duhamel hai given a 

 very accurate and interefting account of it. Refpefting thi^ 

 lingular vegetable, Decatidc^lle miade the follovi^ing experi- 

 liients : 



■ ifti To prove that the rfiifliettofe derives its nt>uri(hmerit 

 froth the tree on which it exiflSj he immt^rffed iti wjlter, cd- 

 Iburetl red with cochineal, a branch of ari stpple-tree on whicH 

 i mifleltoe wets growing. The cdloufcd water penetrated the 

 batrk and woo'd of the appl^-tree and pafTed ittto the miflfeltoe, 

 inhere its colour was even thore intenfe than in the tree itfelf. 

 It does not, however, appear that theit i§ a>eal anaftomofis 

 iJetwfeen the fibres of the milfeUoe and that of the kpple-tree j 

 Ibut the bafe of the miffdtoe is furfourided with a kind of 

 Cellulofity where the fibres of the apple-tree feem io depofit 

 the fap, and where thoib of the mHTeltoe feem to imbibe it. 

 The pith of the mifleltoe is green in the youngftems; andj 

 "by infpe<9[ing a tfanfverfal fedliori of the vegetable, the opi- 

 nion of Dcsfontaines, that the cellular tifliie is an external 

 pith, rendered green by the light, feertis to be fully confirmed. 



2(^ Decandolle took a branch of an apple-tree bearing ^ 

 miifbhoe, and irnmerfed the latter in coiotifed \tater. Itg 

 learies dropped, and the cicatrices became red. The liquor 

 ^Itovveil the ligneous fibres of the miffcltoe, defccnded into 

 hs nirots, pafled into the wood erf the 3fpple-tree, and de- 

 ibended towards its roots. 



3d. Having taken twd branched of an applc-trcc bearing 

 ^vo mtirdtoes of equal fize, and having ftripped of their 

 fcaves both the branches and one of the mififeltocs, he intro- 

 duced the ends of thefe branches into tubes hermetically 

 ftaled, and filled with water;, he then inverted thefe tubes iri 

 a veficl contamiflg mcrcnry^ and obferved that the nwireltoe 

 6 which 



